Aging, treatment of celebrity, fatphobia
Always uncomfortable to me to see people react to musicians or actors or other creators like
"wow what a has-been, so embarrassing. And look how FAT and OLD"
Like first off, yes, we all experience the passage of time, including those who are made up to look young and attractive.
But what what the FUCK, people? If you made millions of dollars because of a single hit, how does it make you pathetic to not effortlessly replicate that success from then on?
Aging, treatment of celebrity, fatphobia
@heatherhorns I always feel like one hit wonders much better represents decades and the like, even if they don't often represent the artist.
it's really sort of a larger fetish for the present and newest and latest throughout culture. I feel like we maintain an eternal present where we like to pretend current problems are wholly new and unrelated to the past, and the way it is now is the only way it was.
Aging, treatment of celebrity, fatphobia
@heatherhorns And it's very much a capitalism thing imo, how it's treated as this new advancement over earlier systems, but also part of human nature and all markets.
It's kinda like how medieval artists just drew everyone in the clothes of their time and culture.
re: Aging, treatment of celebrity, fatphobia
@chimerror @heatherhorns this feels related to the horrible phenomenon of “30 under 30” lists and so on. Like you have to be an amazing perfect creator and you have to do it yesterday, and once you’ve hit 30 you should already be a success at your peak because nobody’s going to care 5 minutes later.
re: Aging, treatment of celebrity, fatphobia
@fluffy @heatherhorns And same with school and sports. The people who got the ground running for whatever reason get the lion's share of attention, while everyone else is just neglected.
re: Aging, treatment of celebrity, fatphobia
@chimerror @fluffy this is a good thread
i've hit 30 this year and to be honest, the "30 under 30" culture absolutely has been affecting me. sure i'm not the youngest anymore, but i always feel like i'm now too old to ever do anything meaningful. whoops i was supposed to have been successful for five years now
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@heatherhorns @chimerror I actually was getting pretty successful by the age of 30 and now I feel like I'm completely washed up because I haven't managed to stay on the trajectory I was following.
re: Aging, treatment of celebrity, fatphobia
@fluffy @heatherhorns Yeah. Anyone who is famous enough to make that list were usually exceptional even before they made it.
I think one of the biggest problems is that we are so focused on the exceptional, often to the cost of the average. We'd rather have one very rich person than many well fed people but no one is that rich.